Bicycle-support



No. 608,464. Patented Aug. 2,1898. A. W. LEWIS. BICYCLE SUPPORT.

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PATENT BEIGE ABRAHAM w. LEWIS, on ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY.

BICYCLE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,464, dated August2, 1898.

Application filed November 9, 1896. Serial No. 611,516. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM W. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at As bury Park, in the county of Monmouth and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBicycle-Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention is an improvement in the class of devices which are adaptedto receive the wheel of a bicycle and support it vertically when not inuse.

The novel construction and combination of parts are as hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, anend view; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the spring-clamp, and Fig. 4 'alike View showing one of the locking devices. Fig. 5 is a perspectiveview showing holders pivoted to a horizontal supportingbar.

I employ a post 1, having a tapered point adapted to be forced into theground or a pavement and a base-flange for resting on theground-surface, as illustrated in Fig. 2. A board 2 may be attached tothe upper endof the post by means of a screw for utilizing the device asan advertising medium.

At 4. there is shown a vertically-extending slot which is made in thepost, and immedi ately below said slot the post is broadened out to formabutments 5 and 6.

The numeral 7 designates a bar which eX tends through the slot and isbolted to the post by the bolt 8. This bar can be made as long or shortas desirable, and it could, if preferable, be formed integral with thepost; but the present construction is the better of the two, since itpermits the bar and its attachments to be readily removed from the postwhen desirable or necessary. Said arm is provided with bifurcated lugs9, which extend in opposite directions, projecting on opposite sides ofthe bar. The intermediate bifurcated lugs 9 can be cast integral withthe post, if desirable. In the present instance I have shown them asbeing secured to the post by the bolt 8. They are provided with thespurs or lugs 9, which enter the post and prevent Fig. 5, or if a wheelof more than twenty-eight inches diameter isplaced in the support thelatter will rock or drop back to accommodate itself thereto. saidholders are formed into the bifurcated arms 12, which are adapted tostraddle the tire and rim of the bicycle-wheel. The lower sides of thearms are not provided with looking means, but simply serve to steady'thebicycle. To the upper arms there are connected by chains 13locking-bolts .14, each of which The upper and lower ends of is providedwith a slot 15 in its free end, and

said bolts are adapted to be passed through the-arms between the'spokesof the bicyclewheel. Any preferred form of padlock 16 can be employed,and its hasp passes through the slot, so that the pin or bolt can besecured. Connected to the bifurcated lugs are spring clasps 17, whichare adapted to straddle and grasp the tire and rim of the bicycle-wheeland hold the bicycle properly supported even though the same be notlocked.

There are many slight changes that could be resorted to in carrying outmy ideas as e1nbodied in the present invention, but without detractingfrom any of the advantages of the latter, and hence I am to beunderstood as considerin g myself entitled to all such variations asproperly come within the scope of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with the post having a pointed lower end, and acentral slot as specified, of a bar arranged and secured horizontally insuch slot, and projecting from the post laterally, and a series ofwheel-holders proper pivoted on the said bar and composed of a curvedbar having bifurcated ends for embracing wheeld'ims as shown anddescribed. 2. The improved bicycle-wheel holder proper composed of theenrved bar, arranged In testimony whereof I have signed this verticallyand pivoted to a fixed support at specification in the presence of twosubscribthe middle of its length, so as to rock and be ing witnesses.

capable of adjustment as specified, a pair of ABRAHAM W. LEWIS 5clamping-springs arranged atthe middle, and Witnesses:

bifurcated lugs at the ends of said bar, For em- A. I llnss,

braeing and holding a wheel-rim as sper-ified. (l. l iHFim'i/wn

